This is the blog bit. Note that I tend to go back and correct old posts rather than making new ones. For image sources and copyright details where known there’s a list here.
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An early memory of the first memory.
Local history for local people.
Tom Kilburn built the Manchester computer. Why didn’t Alan Turing get on with him?
Banana splits and pathetic fallacies
More perverse Manchester pleasures.
Abandoned trams and bitcoin railways.
On the men who started the witchhunt, and the homophobia still present in Cambridge.
A Bletchley Park secret: they wasted their women.
They might drop a suitcase on your head. If they’re J Robert Oppenheimer.
A mini-meditation on the attraction — and grotesquery — of Turing artefacts.
- Turing
- Manchester
- Max Newman
- Tom Kilburn
- Cambridge
- Mark 1
- FC Williams
- Warren McCulloch
- Blackett
- Paul Nash
- Altrincham
- Audrey Bates
- Phyllis Lockett Nicolson
- King's
- JZ Young
- Buses
- Cicely Popplewell
- Geoffrey Jefferson
- Kathleen Lonsdale
- Festival of Britain
- James Yule Bogue
- Getty
- Oppenheimer
- Burgess
- Railways
- Phyllotaxis
- Bletchley
- Bertha Swirles
- JD Bernal
- Trams
- Joan Clarke
- Douglas Hartree
- Molly Harrower
- Lyn Lloyd Irvine
- Mary Lee Woods
- Michael Polanyi